I just started The video Course and am very impressed with this technique.. I am hopeful that this course will positively impact me, as well as my dogs and cat.

“Do animals understand what we are saying? Yes, but you have to make sense”
Vicky Hearne “Adam’s Task”

I am deeply moved by discovering the Trust Technique. I am a Jungian psychotherapist and over the years each learning path I have taken has been a rediscovery that presence and listening are the foundation of what I can offer. I have come to see more fully that human disruption from what we have called nature (as if it is something other than human) and human nature are of course not separate. Eco-therapy has taken me some of the way, what I am learning from the Trust Technique now, joyfully, falls into place.

Trust Technique addresses relations of humans and the animals they are responsible for; it also reaches into human/nature relations in the wild. Essentially it is a well taught practice of meditating alongside an animal and discovering that when the human enters a meditation and is in a state of utter presence and listening, the animal relaxes and can enter a peaceful state that is ,also, healing. When this is repeated, sometimes in small doses if the animal is very sensitive and/or traumatised, the animal comes to recognise it is this human that is enabling the peace, and connection and trust become possible.

However, the method completely gets that the relationship is actually an inter-actional state that the animal may have initiated by catching, (“flirting with”, to use Arnold Mindell’s formation in Quantum Mind) the human. And, that there may be a wound in common. The growth of the relationship, or the process of healing, whichever is the intention, may well depend on the human healing her/his traumas. This is explicitly taught and it’s beautifully shown that the Trust Technique offers healing to both human and animal.

In the first place it is clear (delightfully) that it is humans that needs training!

The teaching of the method, initially online, clearly draws on a wealth of psychotherapeutic knowledge and good practice, on spiritual traditions and indigenous knowledge. And, it has synthesised this with clarity and apparent simplicity, but the kind of simplicity that comes from deep understanding. Following the videos makes me laugh with pleasure as I see them explain in accessible language earnest conceptions of psychoanalysis and all its derivatives. It seems to me the teaching comprises an excellent psychotherapy training, made the more possible by beginning with human/nature relations.

The videos are a masterclass in how to present online.

James Barrett

This video course is the best thing happened to me the last years and is definitely in the top list of the best things ever happened to me. When I first saw the videos with horses “sleeping” next to a human I thought to myself that I can never achieve that. Then I learned this really easy and beautiful technique and 2 days ago I had my first lay down session with 2 two years old “boys” I am taking care of. It was such an amazing session and the whole herd went so peaceful… unbelievable. This technique not just helps the animals but it helps the humans as well. I could route back my anxiety with the horses to my childhood and get peaceful with it. And I could get peaceful with many other issues going on in my life currently and find new ways to look at them and solve them. I highly recommend this video course to everyone, even without animals.

I have known since quite a long time that I wanted to help dogs and their owners heal in a compassionate and holistic way but was unable to find any approach aligned with my compassionate view of the world and its living beings. Then, suddenly, James French appeared in a You Tube ad – which ads I usually skip at all times. And then, another synchronized event happened when my aunt who was a spiritual therapist introduced me to her friend who teaches Reiki for animals, which training I am doing this weekend. I can’t wait to complete the practitioner training with your team and have a positive impact in the world by helping animals and their owners, through a combined approach of reiki and trust practice. Thank you James French for simply being such a compassionate being and for bringing this amazing training and helping me find my life purpose. Simply thank you from the bottom of my heart! I will be forever grateful! And keep doing these ads 🙂

The new format video course is such a beautiful way to learn the Trust Technique to work with your own animals. It is transformative and a beautiful way to be with animals.

I could go indefinitely throuth the Video Course as there is always new information to take.
This video course is beautifully structured and laid out and I enjoyed every moment of it !
I am very exited to start with the Practitioner Course although english is not my native language and am very grateful, thank so much James and Shelley !